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This blog was originally published on Forbes as 6 Debate Moments Alec Baldwin Will Parody On ‘SNL’ Tonight on Saturday, October 22, 2016. In the first moments following the end of the third presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Wednesday, NBC’s Brian Williams said, “some people will find this to be the Alec Baldwin Full […]

Even Barack Obama’s sternest critics admit that he possesses considerable talent as a speaker, but when, in an off-the-record session at the end of his trip to Asia in May, he reportedly described his foreign policy as “Don’t do stupid stuff”…

Obama sets a great example of being accountable for your mistakes. His leadership with the AHA problems is one that all should employ in life and business. Obama’s statement provides a double lesson for presenters, read the full blog on Forbes.

“In a World…” currently playing in movie theaters, earned a well-deserved 91% positive rating from the Rotten Tomatoes website. As Rotten Tomatoes describes it, the film is primarily “a romantic comedy about a struggling vocal coach who strikes it big in the cutthroat world of movie-trailer voice-overs.” With main emphasis on the competition for voice-over […]

Last week, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FLA) appeared CNN’s “The Lead” to discuss the highly controversial issue of Syria. At the start of the interview, anchorman Jake Tapper asked the senator, “If you were president right now, what would you advocate?” Senator Rubio’s answer was, “We have no good options because of two years of inaction.”

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal published an article about grammar that is quite relevant to presenters. The author, Mark Goldblatt, who teaches at Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York, considers good grammar vital to success in life. He wrote, “Nothing prolongs the socioeconomic struggles … more than an inability to communicate […]

Sue Shellenbarger, the creator and writer of the Wall Street Journal‘s “Work & Family” column, wrote a comprehensive article here on how the quality of a person’s voice can impact his or her career. Our solution is a skill called “Resonance,” which helps anyone improve the quality of his or her voice by simply widening the […]

Today on Forbes: make it all about them. Them being your audience. San Francisco Chronicle columnist, Leah Garchik, writes a piece on presentation observations and she makes several relevant points about the pitfalls of tedious presentation delivery. Learn two important lessons today.

There’s an old Show Business story about an aging vaudeville comic who is about to meet his Maker. His friends and family come to his deathbed to say their goodbyes. One of his former partners, dismayed at seeing his friend’s frail state, leans in to whisper, “Dying is hard.”